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stonpicnicking_okapi shared their love of this comm as part of February Love Fest and inspired me to join. :)

I have been experiencing nature up close and personal thanks to some frogs. At the end of November, following a rain storm, my Partner and I could hear a frog in our tiny, ornamental garden pond/water feature. We're always so thrilled when this happens!

The next morning when I walked past the pond I saw a pile of bubbles and thought that was cool. The male frog has been making a bubble nest, like a betta fish, pining for a female to come join him (spoiler: I don't know much about frogs).

The next day I went to clean the pond (a bi-weekly feat during summer) and noticed that only only had the bubbles persisted, but some of them had developed little black dots. Oh my god, they're not bubbles they're eggs!
( Life, uh, finds a way )

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Photograph of two kingfishers perched on a branch. One is surrounded by a cloud of pink love hearts and the other has a single question mark over its head. Text: Inept in Love, at Fancake.

fancake is a thematic recommendation community where all members are welcome to post recs, and fanworks of all shapes and sizes are accepted. Check out the community guidelines for the full set of rules.

This theme runs for the entire month. If you have any questions, just ask!

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orgeat (AWR-zhat, awr-ZHA) - n., a sweet syrup flavored with almonds and orange blossoms, used in cocktails and food.

Including specifically, again, mai tais. Originally orgeat was flavored with barley instead of almonds, which explains the etymology: from (around 1750) French (no surprise given the pronunciation), from Middle French, from Provençal/Old Occitan orjat, from ordi/orge, barley, from Latin hordeum, barley -- which last (TIL) also gave us (via Catalan orxata) the drink horchata (also no longer made with barley) and (via Italian) the pasta orzo (which only looks like barley). (More brackets for the heck of it.)

---L.

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Comment with Just One Thing you've accomplished in the last 24 hours or so. It doesn't have to be a hard thing, or even a thing that you think is particularly awesome. Just a thing that you did.

Feel free to share more than one thing if you're feeling particularly accomplished! Extra credit: find someone in the comments and give them props for what they achieved!

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galadhir

So, every time I sign up to do a solo, there's a place on the form for my dancer's pseudonym, and every time it makes me think 'should I have a dance name?' and 'if I should, what should it be?

I don't feel happy about just awarding myself an Arabic name, so these are the three choices I've managed to come up with:

Ursula Ogg - after Ursula the octopus villain, and Nanny Ogg the witch. I'll be honest, the main driver for choosing either of these names is that I'm fat. Nanny Ogg is my favorite Discworld witch, but I feel no connection to the idea of witchery in general, and if I was to choose a favorite villain, Ursula wouldn't be on that list at all. So basically I just chose this because they were two cool people who were also fat.
AElfgifu - means 'Elf-gift' and is my favourite Anglo-Saxon name. I am Anglo-Saxon myself so this would be a safe cultural bet.
Athalia - means 'God is exalted' and is a Biblical name. I would like for my name to exalt God, and there's a long tradition among Christians to grab names out of the Bible, so if it's cultural appropriation, it's a long standing one.

Now I've put them all down I think Ursula is off the table and I just need some help choosing between AElfgifu and Athalia.

I feel more of a personal connection to AElfgifu through my years of Anglo-Saxon re-enactment, but I might need to give pronunciation tips with it, which would be a faff. (It's pronounced 'Alfg-aye-vuh')

On the other hand Athalia would be a new start, it doesn't require an Old English primer to pronounce, and of all the names it's the only one that made my heart leap a little.

What do you think? Athalia? Something else entirely?

(There's a lady I follow on Tumblr who is of a similar build to me and her dance name is Ursa Major, which I think is fantastic.)

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Hi all!

I'm doing some minor operational work tonight. It should be transparent, but there's always a chance that something goes wrong. The main thing I'm touching is testing a replacement for Apache2 (our web server software) in one area of the site.

Thank you!

hannah

In a combined effort of using something up to have fewer things in my apartment, and to add some coziness to cold nights, I've taken to lighting the scented candles I've had around for a good long while - many years, for a few of them. At this point, I'm not really burning them for the scents anymore so much as I am for the ritual.

Speaking of, with my new coat arriving, I definitely don't have any reason to keep the old one around. Just excuses. Not even "I'm at work most of the day" cuts it as the closest place is open before my clients expect me. I don't like that it's just excuses, and hopefully that'll help push me to get it dealt with sooner.

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This community has been quiescent for a long time because Alternity is over.

Except that three of the writers who helped conceptualize and write this game are living in Minneapolis and St. Paul, and we need to tell you this:

We are actually living it.

If you ever loved Alternity, we are earnestly asking you, begging you, to read this right now.

( Here are Peg's thoughts )

( Here are Naomi's thoughts )

( Here are Elise's thoughts )

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If you have made it this far (yes, we know this was long), thanks for listening. We would welcome your comments.

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curaçao (KOOR-uh-soh, kyoor-uh-SOW, and other permutations) - n., a liqueur flavored with the dried peel of the sour laraha orange.

Thanks, WikiMedia!

This came up in the definition of mai tai, as one of its ingredients, so finally explaining it. The laraha is a bitter orange, descended from Seville orange, which were introduced to the Caribbean island of Curaçao in the early 1500s. The island became a Dutch possession in 1627, and it became fashionable in 17th century Netherlands to create liquors from exotic flavorings from overseas, and Lukas Bols (1652–1719), then head of a family run distillery, used the aromatic oil from Curaçao oranges to make one -- normally colorless, he dyed it blue to make it even more exotic. Named after the island, of course, which is probably a Portuguese transcription of its name in a mainland Arawakan language such as Lokono (so it would have fit into that theme - ah well).

---L.

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Hi guys! I have made 22 new icons from the drama.

Preview:

Check them out here in my journal.

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queenlua

i have been so miserably sick for nearly two weeks now. woe is me!

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during that time, in varying states of lucidity i have finished reading:

* The Poet Empress by Shen Tao (good)
* Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros (terrible)
* Bel-Ami by Guy de Maupassant trans. Douglas Parmée (LMAO???)

if you would like further commentary on any of the above, lmk and i will pontificate accordingly~

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in varying states of lucidity i have also been dashing off fills for the three sentence ficathon. mostly variations-on-the-theme-of-Clair-Obscur-incest because empirically that is What The People Want & i aim to please: un, deux, trois, quatre, cinq, six.

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HOPE ALL Y'ALL ARE COUGHING A LOT LESS THAN I AM; take care; ta for now~

hannah

Dinner plans shifted about halfway through cooking: I'd planned to make boxed macaroni and cheese with some vegetables added in, but the vegetables ended up smelling so good, I ditched the cheese. Sauteed onions, garlic, and herbs with rapini and canned tomatoes might've taken well to the cheese sauce, but I'm pleased at how it came out just the same.

My new plan is to make boxed macaroni and cheese with double the cheese sauce at some point in the future, and feel absurdly luxurious for being able to do so.

Current Mood: full
Current Music: nothing now

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This year's mini bang is in regular bang order. Authors have drafted fics for their chosen rare pair. Artists will claim at least 1 fic to use as inspiration for fanart. Partners will collaborate and share their fanworks together during the posting period for this event. Please read our specifications page for more details about expectations for event works.

Claims for the 2025-2026 mini bang are open!

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